Obama on recent threats: 'We don't get terrorized'

President Obama weighed in Wednesday on the latest terror threats against U.S. diplomatic facilities abroad, warning would-be attackers that the United States does not back down.

"The United States is never going to retreat from the world. We don't get terrorized," he said at Camp Pendleton, near San Diego.

Though U.S. and other allied forces have "decimated the Al Qaeda leadership," Obama said, "Al Qaeda affiliates and likeminded extremists still threaten our homeland" and they "still threaten our diplomatic facilities ... we've been reminded of this in recent days."

The administration has closed diplomatic facilities in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other countries through Saturday, "out of an abundance of caution," the State Department said.